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Cultivating Mindfulness of Bodhichitta in Daily Activities
In Cultivating Mindfulness of Bodhichitta in Daily Activities, Lama Zopa Rinpoche offers students prayers, visualizations, and advice to help transform daily activities—such as standing up, using the toilet, brushing one’s teeth, dressing, or ascending a staircase—into causes for enlightenment. For ... Read more »
Please Enjoy Our FPMT 2017 Annual Review: Serving the Teachings of the Buddha
FPMT International Office is happy to announce FPMT Annual Review 2017: Serving the Teachings of the Buddha is now available to read as an eZine and a downloadable PDF. International Office, also called Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s office, helps fulfill the ... Read more »
Rolwaling Gompa Project Continues Toward Completion
Thanks to a kind and generous donor, in 2016, a substantial grant was offered from the Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund to Rolwaling Monastery in Nepal, at the Tibet border, for the rebuilding of their gompa which was nearly destroyed in ... Read more »
New Video: Lama Zopa Rinpoche on Lama Tsongkhapa Day at Kopan Monastery
Every year the Sangha at Kopan Monastery celebrate Lama Tsongkhapa Day with incredible light offerings, including hundreds of thousands of strung lights encircling the buildings at the monastery and nunnery, and a special evening offering of candles. The holy day ... Read more »
Transforming Sickness and Injury into Pure Dharma
Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered advice to a student who was injured by a fall and who had not healed and was worried. Here’s what Rinpoche told the student: Think that, “I am the most fortunate one, that I have this ... Read more »
Updated! The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (Including Enlightenment)
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has said very strongly on many occasions that The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (Including Enlightenment) with Additional Practices is a practice that he would like all his students to do every day. In ... Read more »
Thank You Message from Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has recorded a message to thank all who recited the practices requested for his health and long life. Listen to Rinpoche’s message, and read the edited transcript: “This is a message from Mickey Mouse, little one, little ... Read more »
Supporting the Education of Tibetan Refugees’ Children
The Social Services Fund has been sponsoring the midday meals for the children attending The Central School for Tibetans, Cauvery Valley Project (CVP), located in Bylakuppe, South India. The school was was established in 1971 to serve the children of ... Read more »
Rinpoche at Kopan Monastery and Maratika Cave
Lama Zopa Rinpoche was at Kopan Monastery during February, between travels, and met with a number of people, including Khadro-la (Rangjung Neljorma Khandro Namsel Drönme) and a group of Chinese Sangha from Wutaishan. He gave an oral transmission to them ... Read more »![Rinpoche on Proper Respect for Dharma Texts [Video]](https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/02/rinpoche-on-proper-respect-for-dharma-texts-video/lama-zopa-rinpoche-khadrola-text-bhutan-2016-320x256.jpg)
Rinpoche on Proper Respect for Dharma Texts [Video]
“My iPad contains the Kangyur, the Tengyur, many teachings. It is the same as a Dharma text. You can’t put it on the bed or down [low]. You have to respect it and put it higher,” Rinpoche explained in a ... Read more »
Lama Zopa Rinpoche on Oral Transmissions
On various occasions, Lama Zopa Rinpoche has taught that receiving the oral transmission (lung) of prayers, practices, and texts is very beneficial. In addition to multiplying the benefits of one’s own recitations of the text by one hundred, the oral ... Read more »